[AlexH]

FIRST turned me into a engineering hacker ninja.

kidding aside..l I was a semi normal kid with interests in building stuff but I lacked the skills and focus to really do stuff and do it well. I joined my school's FIRST team a year after building a battlebot and I learned everything from how to properly use tools, to how to overcome design challenges and how to work better in groups versus working on something alone. Only downside to FIRST, (at least for me) is my grades tend to suffer during the FIRST season because I devote so much time to it.